Vi Et Armis
East India
Beaufort 2015

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7.3 / 10 185 Ratings

Vi Et Armis is a perfume by Beaufort for women and men and was released in 2015. The scent is smoky-spicy. Projection and longevity are above-average. It is still in production.

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Main accords

Smoky

Spicy

Woody

Resinous

Leathery

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Black pepper

Black tea

Grapefruit

Cardamom

Heart Notes

Frankincense

Opium poppy

Red fruits

Whisky

Ylang-ylang

Base Notes

Birch

Tobacco

Amber

Atlas cedar

Caramel

Labdanum

Patchouli

Sandalwood

Oud

Perfumers

Julie Dunkley, Julie Marlowe

Ratings

Scent

7.3185 Ratings

Longevity

8.5164 Ratings

Sillage

8.4165 Ratings

Bottle

8.1149 Ratings

Value for money

7.062 Ratings

Submitted by Zionist, last update on 16.03.2024.

Reviews

7 in-depth fragrance descriptions

01/22/2020

8
Bottle 8
Sillage 9
Longevity 8.5
Scent

Floyd
290 Reviews

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Floyd

Top Review 48

East India 1749

The old brig seems to lie ghostly cumbersome in the sea, the intervals are unusually long, in which the hypnotic groaning and creaking of the keel works its way into the two-master's beams, as if someone were very slowly pulling a piece of wood over a washboard. Then there is the rolling of a bottle over the planks, with each interval once from one side to the other, before it encounters resistance with a light blow. Hardly any wind. Weakly a few waves slosh around the bow, muffled gurgling, otherwise everything is dead quiet. What about the crew? There were these radio messages last night, from Pembroke and Namur, the cyclone I can't open my eyes. It smells burnt. Did we have fire on board? Then there is an almost pungent ethereal smell, like camphor, that must be the pepper that was stowed next to the smoked tea, probably the cargo got into each other in the storm.
The Chinese Lapsang Souchong, which they smoke over pine roots, it is possible that it smells like this. I perceive him more and more. It seems to interweave with brighter, freshly citric smoke. Did we have Indian incense? Did he catch fire, too? Was there a fire? The opium. Where the hell were we? I can't make it out. Is it burned, lost? Will we sink?
What was that? The bottle. She must have cracked. I must have fainted again. How much time may have passed? An hour? I still can't open my eyes. That silence. What about the others? Scottish single malt, it smells smoky by itself, damn, it was my last bottle of whisky. The black Zware tobacco, it must be here in my cabin, probably even here in the bunk, among all the old burnt wood. If the company knew that I prefer to smoke Dutch tobacco. Whether it even matters anymore?
I think it's getting dark. The sea is very still now. I lie here in uncertainty for half an eternity. It smells of burnt wood, the smoky note in my whisky, which has smeared over the remains of the earth and ashes on the cabin planks. I don't think I'll be unloading my cargo at any port. Sorry, George. Rule Britannia...

07/25/2017

8
Scent

ScentFan
332 Reviews

ScentFan

Helpful Review 3

Unabashed Funk

Not sure everyone wants to go around smelling like East India, but if you do, this is the way. You can sense the quality here, beneath the fragrant funk--the rich tobacco and whiskey, forbidden opium, etc, the birch tar. Must be the oud lofting up the potent stench. I'd wear this if I were braver, but I'm not. I'll leave Vi Et Armis (force and arms) to the Genghis Khans among us, the Alexander the Greats, the Theodore Roosevelts, the Chaka Zulus, the Geronimos, the Hemingways. It's from Beaufort, the London perfume house founded by the somewhat darkly free-thinking Leo Crabtree, so I guess I'd best add Henry VIII to the list.

08/02/2021

Tassilo
1 Review

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Tassilo

i lay down my arms

The scent starts with me with the smell of blood (iron). Then it goes over to metallic smells. At the end remains only sage (is probably the tea - I smell but only sage... or rather: sage candies, which are given for colds). Since I hated these candies as a child, the smell is pure torture for me.
I bought the tasting set of Beaufort. Not all scents resonate with me - but others I find quite strong.
But this fragrance is definitely my "lowlight". 1/10 points. The 2ml I will definitely no longer anlangen

01/17/2022

10
Pricing 9
Bottle 10
Sillage 10
Longevity 9
Scent

LorenzoYann
31 Reviews

LorenzoYann

Blood, smoking tobacco and a sea shanty

The first time I tried this perfume I was unprepared and it stongly repelled me, I seemed to smell such a potent blood note combined with tobacco that it gave me a rotting vibe. The more I was able to test this creation on other types of skin the more it turned out birch and gunpowder would be more prominent on my skin while tea and whisky would be more detectable on my relatives' skin.
After extensive testing this open up on my skin as an iron sword piercing through flesh while drying down to a beautiful whisky, tea and opium barrel sailing back.

02/12/2023

9
Pricing 8
Bottle 10
Sillage 9
Longevity 9
Scent

NosyCat
8 Reviews

NosyCat

Love it or hate it…

When I first smelt Beaufort’s ‘Vi et Armis’ I was on a lookout for an incense scent. Well, I did not get any incense from that…moreover I did not like what I was given! My initial reaction was: it smells like smoked salmon. However, while trying numerous other fragrances, I kept going back to this blotter and even though it wasn’t seemingly pleasant, I could not stop smelling it. So I purchased a tester - and absolutely fell in love with it.

There is a lot of smoke in ‘Vi et Armis’ - just like in all of the Beaufort perfumes; this is what they promote - which is not necessarily pleasant from the first whiff, but give it time and it will open itself up and enwrap you in its story. Interesting. Dark. Dissonant. But just like in music, dissonance, when used skilfully, will emphasise the harmony of the entity. The opening reminds me of tea - and not just any tea, but Lapsang Souchong, the smoky, tarry tea. Very subtle freshly ground pepper. There is a slightly sour, zesty note - it must be opium (which I have not smelt like this in any perfume before). Some peaty single malts smell like this - I’m thinking of Laphroaig or the better versions of Tallisker - evoking images of rough northern seas and waves shattering on charcoal-coloured volcanic rock. There is saltiness. There is harshness. But there is also familiarity and safety of a wooden fire; the trust in a pipe smoking mariner who knows the waters like the inside of his own pocket. You can smell the inside of a ship of the East India Trading Company, laden with spices, tea, opium, tobacco and wood - it truly transports you in time and envelops you in an array of intriguing scents, some amazingly familiar, some not, but nevertheless fascinating. At the end of the voyage (after many many hours of wearing it) one is left with the warm, thick oud and sandalwood - to me it smells exactly like the base of Tom Ford’s ‘Tuscan Leather’; however even though the destination of those two perfumes might be the same, the journey there couldn’t have been more different.
The projection of ‘Vi et Armis’ is beyond your wildest dreams - even a small amount will be perceived by those around you, whether they like it or not. I would be very mindful as to when to wear it; I don’t think it is a perfume to wear to the office on a daily basis and it also works best in winter - in summer it would be just overpowering.
That small amount that you spayed 7 hours ago? It is still there, although by now it has settled and softened and became the aforementioned warm ambery-woody smell.

I have a feeling that ‘Vi et Armis’ is an acquired taste - just like whisky, wine, cigars - but once it captures you it becomes deeply addictive and you want to smell more and more of it.

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